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    The political position generator—A new instrument for measuring political ties in China

    Stockmann, Daniela, Hartman, Keri and Luo, Ting (2020) The political position generator—A new instrument for measuring political ties in China. Social Networks, 63. pp. 70-79. ISSN 0378-8733

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    Abstract

    This paper proposes a novel instrument – the political position generator - for measuring individuals’ political ties, or personal, affective connections to state officials and other political actors. It adopts and adapts the more general position generator framework in social capital research to capture three key dimensions of political ties – upper reachability, network diversity, and tie strength. The measure is validated with data from a representative survey of the Chinese population and three scales representing the three political ties dimensions are created. In correlational and multivariate regression analyses, we find initial evidence of the instrument’s criterion-related (discriminant and concurrent) validity.

    Item Type: Article (Article)
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 09 Jun 2020 09:46
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication in Social Networks, published by and copyright Elsevier.
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Subject terms: political tie, China, Guanxi, social capital, position generator, Sociology, 1601 Anthropology, 1608 Sociology
    Data Access Statement: As part of the ethics review of the European Research Council, the PI developed a risk mitigation plan which foresees sharing of anonymized data after 2021. In the meantime, the PI will share anonymized data with researchers on a case-by-case basis. More information is available at www.chinainternetsurvey.net
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/625949
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.05.004
    ISSN 0378-8733

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